Put on the mind of Christ. One of my favourite scriptures in the bible is Proverbs 23:7 “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he” this short scripture is extremely powerful. It simply implies that what you think, is what you become. This just highlights the power of your thoughts. Your thoughts have creative power. Again, I just want to stress that, if you can think it, you can become it. If you think rich, you can become rich. You become what you focus on really. Having a poor mind can destroy your future riches. Throughout circumstances it is important to keep a positive mind-set. Think things that are above, think excellence even when you do not see excellence for what you allow your mind to dwell on is what you will eventually become. Your thoughts must be aligned with the promises and purpose of God. What you focus on, you manifest. If we focus on the ugly, we begin to see things ugly and therefore we bring negative and ugly thoughts to our minds. Counter negative energy with the energy of faith.  After all, the quality of your life is made better by the quality of your life.  Worrying and fear are detrimental to your success. Don't let thoughts of worry and fear defeat you. Fear and worry are powerful when we give them power. Hence it is important to renew our minds when we feel these creeping up on us. Whenever I feel a little tempted to worry, I switch the worry into praise. I keep my focus on God and His goodness. When you renew your mind like this, you make room for peace. God's peace comes upon you. So, renew your mind fix your mind on God.
“And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true and honourable, and right and pure and lovely and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise” – Philippians 4:8

Overthinking.

I realised I suffered from anxiety and over thinking with almost everything concerning my life. I would over think the simplest things that I already knew and definitely did not need any over thinking. I would think on them and overthink my overthinking. It was easy to make some decisions others , I had to over think them. Especially the decisions about my future, my career or little things such as deciding to go out. What resulted from this was that, I had stopped doing the things that I wanted to do. I  did not see this then but soon I realized I was self inflicting. I was hurting myself by not doing all I am called to do. I was keeping myself from success. Overthinking and anxiety are dangerous because it hampers you from reaching your potential and finding your purpose. Overthinking is nothing but excess worrying. God did not create us to live worried lives. God does not want us be stressed or live our lives at the brink of anxiety This is not our calling. We are called to be at peace and to live fearlessly. It is evident that God wants us to be at ease when we read the scripture Philippians 4:6 “ Don’t worry about anything, instead pray about everything.” In the scriptures God specifically instructs us not to worry. So we really shouldn't.  Worry is not healthy for us and it really doesn't help with anything.  I used a few mechanisms to help me combat overthinking and worrying. 
 The base of renewing the mind  has to do with encouraging yourself. Speak positive things about yourself to yourself. Affirm yourself. Tell yourself that “I am capable, I am deserving, I can do what God says I can do.” Do not wait for another person to encourage you. They might never. Some people do not want you to succeed so you have to order success to your life. Speak your heart's desires into existence. Speak good things about yourself. Be your own motivational speaker and your own prophet. Yes, prophecy over your life, tell life what you want from it. And lastly, be your own cheerleader, tell yourself you did good and you are good.  There is a little ritual I practice each day. When I go to bed in the evening, I set my alarm clock 10 minutes before my actual wake up time. In that 10 minutes I lay in bed and I begin to think positively about the day I’m going to have. I take that time to declare all good things I want to come out of the day. I fill my head with positive thoughts and lovely expectations so I try to keep the same pace throughout the day.1 At the end of the day, I repeat the same thing. I reflect on the day and be thankful for it even if the day did not go as I had hoped.

 Secondly, think good thoughts. I learned that as I appraised myself more and thought good thoughts I immediately buffer all the negative thoughts of “I’m not good enough or what if do not do good.” When the negative thoughts shift out of your mind. A cleansing is happening not only to your mind but to your inner self. You become more optimistic, cheerful and you begin to see yourself in  positive light as being able to achieve anything and everything. The sky is not even the limit. You are limitless. As we think good thoughts we convince ourselves that we are good, we are able and we are worthy. When we become convinced that we are all these wonderful things, we believe it and we eventually we become it, whatever it is. Do not be tempted by unbelief. Unbelief is the refusal to believe. It just wants to poison you against excellence. If you do not think negatively then you won't reap negatively.

 Also, renew your mind by the word of God. The true meaning of renewing your mind is exchanging your thoughts with those of God. Read the scriptures as often as possible. Getting to know and understand what God says about you is important. Therefore, fix your mind on what God says about you. Fill your mind with the word of God rather than anything else, listen to gospel music and preaching. Doing this will Also influence how you feel about yourself and in general. 

Negative believing keeps us in bondage. Break free by thinking positive.

Psalms 34:14 “Turn away from evil and do good. Search for peace and work to maintain it.”